.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 319 175
Rank change year-on-year +102 -144 -29
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 776 391 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.86% 0.90% 1.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.26% 4.99% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 739 337 1,068
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £106,750 £92,725
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,396 7,829 14,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.42% 18.03% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,139 5,279 11,248
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 28 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +121 200 £55,000 +4.76% 58
North of England +32 169 £55,000 -8.33% 44
East of England +75 118 £61,250 +11.36% 24
Midlands +30 107 £55,000 -8.33% 24
London -106 96 £80,000 - 52
South West -2 82 £52,500 - 11
North East +9 70 £65,000 +33.33% 13
North West +5 66 £50,000 -16.67% 22
West Midlands +21 64 £55,000 -8.33% 14
East Midlands +8 43 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Yorkshire -27 33 £55,000 -8.33% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.16%) IIS
3 7 (0.90%) CMS
4 6 (0.77%) Confluence
5 4 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (0.52%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.39%) DNN
6 3 (0.39%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.39%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.39%) Kentico
6 3 (0.39%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Magento
1 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 628 (80.93%) Azure
2 205 (26.42%) Azure DevOps
3 148 (19.07%) GitHub
4 134 (17.27%) GitHub Copilot
5 132 (17.01%) Azure AI
6 131 (16.88%) AWS
7 68 (8.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 51 (6.57%) Azure Logic Apps
9 44 (5.67%) Power Platform
10 34 (4.38%) SaaS
11 29 (3.74%) Power Automate
12 27 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
12 27 (3.48%) Azure Service Bus
12 27 (3.48%) PowerApps
12 27 (3.48%) Serverless
13 21 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
14 19 (2.45%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (2.45%) OneDrive
15 18 (2.32%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.93%) Internet
2 7 (0.90%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.39%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) AMQP
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Modbus
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 447 (57.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 371 (47.81%) MongoDB
3 149 (19.20%) Elasticsearch
4 142 (18.30%) SQL Server
5 37 (4.77%) Power BI
6 16 (2.06%) MySQL
7 12 (1.55%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.42%) NonStop SQL
8 11 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.29%) Redis
10 7 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (0.77%) GIS
11 6 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.39%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.26%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
14 1 (0.13%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 50 (6.44%) Git
2 14 (1.80%) JIRA
3 8 (1.03%) GitLab
4 6 (0.77%) MSI
5 5 (0.64%) NUnit
6 4 (0.52%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.39%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.39%) Postman
7 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.39%) Vite
8 2 (0.26%) Selenium
8 2 (0.26%) Snyk
8 2 (0.26%) webpack
9 1 (0.13%) JUnit
9 1 (0.13%) MSTest
9 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 112 (14.43%) Finance
2 66 (8.51%) Social Skills
3 56 (7.22%) Advertising
4 45 (5.80%) Games
5 40 (5.15%) Marketing
6 33 (4.25%) Retail
7 17 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (2.06%) Banking
9 14 (1.80%) Aerospace
9 14 (1.80%) Law
10 12 (1.55%) Public Sector
11 11 (1.42%) Music Industry
12 9 (1.16%) Automotive
13 8 (1.03%) Legal
14 6 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.64%) Front Office
15 5 (0.64%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.52%) Back Office
16 4 (0.52%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 659 (84.92%) Developer
2 523 (67.40%) .NET Developer
3 104 (13.40%) Senior
4 90 (11.60%) Software Developer
5 67 (8.63%) Senior Developer
6 59 (7.60%) C# Developer
7 48 (6.19%) C# .NET Developer
7 48 (6.19%) Lead
8 40 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 39 (5.03%) Software Engineer
10 31 (3.99%) Lead Developer
11 25 (3.22%) .NET Software Developer
12 24 (3.09%) Senior Software Developer
13 21 (2.71%) .NET Software Engineer
13 21 (2.71%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 19 (2.45%) Senior .NET Developer
15 18 (2.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 17 (2.19%) C# Software Developer
16 17 (2.19%) Senior C# Developer
17 15 (1.93%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 776 (100.00%) .NET
2 503 (64.82%) ASP.NET
3 443 (57.09%) ASP.NET Core
4 222 (28.61%) HTML
5 220 (28.35%) CSS
6 211 (27.19%) Entity Framework
7 206 (26.55%) Blazor
8 192 (24.74%) React
9 179 (23.07%) RESTful
10 178 (22.94%) AngularJS
11 175 (22.55%) Vue
12 172 (22.16%) ASP.NET Web API
13 157 (20.23%) Node.js
14 132 (17.01%) .NET Framework
14 132 (17.01%) ML.NET
15 108 (13.92%) LINQ
16 65 (8.38%) REST
17 45 (5.80%) JSON
18 36 (4.64%) WPF
19 23 (2.96%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.34%) Greenfield Project
2 59 (7.60%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (2.58%) Cloud Native
3 20 (2.58%) Digital TV
4 17 (2.19%) iPhone
4 17 (2.19%) Mobile App
5 15 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.68%) Sports Betting
8 12 (1.55%) Hedge funds
8 12 (1.55%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.55%) Social Network
9 11 (1.42%) BBC
9 11 (1.42%) Social Media
10 8 (1.03%) Low-Code
11 7 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.90%) Client/Server
11 7 (0.90%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 6 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.19%) Android
1 17 (2.19%) Windows
2 10 (1.29%) VMS
3 2 (0.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 518 (66.75%) Full-Stack Development
2 403 (51.93%) Agile
3 251 (32.35%) CI/CD
4 246 (31.70%) DevOps
5 204 (26.29%) Microservices
6 158 (20.36%) AI
7 152 (19.59%) Machine Learning
8 144 (18.56%) Multithreading
9 93 (11.98%) Scrum
10 89 (11.47%) Software Engineering
11 82 (10.57%) OO
11 82 (10.57%) TDD
12 68 (8.76%) BDD
13 60 (7.73%) Kanban
13 60 (7.73%) User Experience
14 58 (7.47%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
15 51 (6.57%) SDLC
16 49 (6.31%) Business Intelligence
17 48 (6.19%) Analytics
17 48 (6.19%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 731 (94.20%) C#
2 526 (67.78%) SQL
3 248 (31.96%) JavaScript
4 212 (27.32%) TypeScript
5 35 (4.51%) PowerShell
6 22 (2.84%) Python
7 14 (1.80%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (0.90%) Java
10 6 (0.77%) Bicep
11 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.39%) Bash
12 3 (0.39%) PHP
12 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.26%) VBA
14 1 (0.13%) C++
14 1 (0.13%) Delphi
14 1 (0.13%) F#
14 1 (0.13%) Pascal
14 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (6.96%) Degree
2 25 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (1.93%) Security Cleared
4 13 (1.68%) SC Cleared
5 5 (0.64%) AWS Certification
5 5 (0.64%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.13%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.13%) OCP
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.96%) Accessibility
1 23 (2.96%) QA
2 7 (0.90%) WCAG
3 6 (0.77%) NCSC
4 4 (0.52%) GDPR
5 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.13%) ITGC
6 1 (0.13%) NIST
6 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 190 (24.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 173 (22.29%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.45%) Terraform
3 3 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.13%) Grafana
4 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 516 (66.49%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.70%) Facebook
3 43 (5.54%) Google
4 21 (2.71%) YouTube
5 19 (2.45%) Adobe
6 11 (1.42%) Apple
6 11 (1.42%) Sony
6 11 (1.42%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.77%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.52%) Sitecore
8 4 (0.52%) Workday
9 3 (0.39%) Alterian
9 3 (0.39%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.39%) Splunk
10 2 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle
10 2 (0.26%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.26%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.13%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.13%) Reuters